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Building a Somewhat More Affordable AM5 Server in the Silverstone RM32 3U Case!

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A threadripper build??! in this economy??

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Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

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Supermicro's Intermediate Server Rack System the B300

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Ultimate Proxmox Guide: Set Up a Production Cluster ft. OpenMetal.io Dedicated Servers!

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4x Radeon AI Pro R9700 in a single system! And HAProxy: Owning the Means of Production

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Fractal Pop 2 Air Quick Build

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Adam/EposVox and Wendell's Storinator Storage Upgrade Adventure! Level1Diagnostic


Cases

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Building a Somewhat More Affordable AM5 Server in the Silverstone RM32 3U Case!

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Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

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Fractal Pop 2 Air Quick Build

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A New Silverstone 5u Case for our Storage Server and Virtual Machines! (Featuring a FSP 1600w PSU)

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Upgrading the HL 15 and Rambling about 45 Drives Creator Summit

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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SilverStone CS383: A Case for True Professionals

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Fractal Epoch: The Perfect PC Case for Beginners?

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Run Deepseek locally on a 24g GPU: Quantizing on our Giga Computing 6980P Xeon


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Minisforum MS O2 Ultra Is a Fantasy Level Mini PC

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Is Custom Building a Forbidden Router in 2025 a Good Idea? Featuring Editor Grant

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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Minisforum MS S1 Max AI Review, Benchmarks, and Comfy UI Setup Guide

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More Strix Halo MADNESS With The GMKtec EVO-X2 Mini PC!

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Showcasing the New MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2mg on the Server Crash Cart!

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Minisforum UM680 Slim: A Mini PC Masterpiece?

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Small Form Factor Workstation: Reviewing and Benchmarking the Minisforum MS-A2

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Phantom Gaming B850i Lighting WiFi Review

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Keeping up with AI with the Minisforum X1 AI Mini PC Ft. 96GB Memory


CPUs

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Intel's Battle Matrix Benchmarks and Review

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Minisforum M1 Pro 285H Review

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SuperCompute 2025 was NUTS! Here's a Few Cool Things I Saw

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AMD's New Redstone Driver: Performance Gains for Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT, But There's a Catch

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Building a Decent Intel Workstation for Relatively Cheap

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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Intel i915 SR-IOV Mode for Flex 170 + Updated for Proxmox 9 PVE Kernel 6.14.8

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How does the Intel Core Ultra 9 GMKtec EVO-T1 Measure Up to Strix Halo?

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OMG INTEL B50 SR-IOV Linux!

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Is the Sand Thinking? Intel's 18A process at Fab52 w/ Panther Lake and Xeon 6+ Preview


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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Cooling Two Epyc CPUs with the Silverstone XE360P-DD!

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 3 2025: Grand Theft Wind

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Intel Has a Problem Part 2: Post Mortem: Revived. But the Aftermath?


GPUs

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“AI Factory” Isn’t a Metaphor — It’s a Design Pattern (And That Changes Everything)

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Intel B70 -- Arc Pro Battlemage Lands with 32gb VRAM, 600+ GB/sec bandwidth, and more

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Teaching a Robot how to Game with Turnstone and Nvidia VSS!

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Best 120b Model for Offline Use? Nemotron 3 Super Out Now

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What Do You Want to Run on this 4 DGX Spark Cluster? Preparing for GTC '26 #tech #nvidia

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DGX and RTX 6000s at SC 25

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4x Radeon AI Pro R9700 in a single system! And HAProxy: Owning the Means of Production

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NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz are giving Tesla a run for its Money!

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Running Vision-Language AI Locally: Building something fun with Jetson, Small Models, and Big Ideas

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SuperCompute 2025 was NUTS! Here's a Few Cool Things I Saw


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Where's My Framework 16?! A Chat with Tom Lawrence on Upgrading Wendell's old Laptop

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 18 2025: Itty Bitty Xbox

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Phison's NEW SSD Controller: Better Laptop Battery, Faster Performance!

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The HP Zbook Ultra G1A MONSTER Laptop Linux Setup Guide!

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ROG Flow z13 Using Linux!

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show May 21 2025: Bye Bye Bing Search

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128 gigs of RAM in this ROG Flow Z13 Tablet!?

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MinisForum's MDSA156 15.6" Dual Portable Monitor Quick Overview

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The Level1 Show March 18 2025: Et Tu, Graber?

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The Level1 Show March 12 2025: UBlock Pushed Over the Edge


Memory

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What Exactly is the Deal with DDR5?

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This G.Skill Memory Won't Throttle? And ASUS has a Bug

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Sapphire Makes Motherboards? Sapphire Nitro+ B850A Wifi7 Review

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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Testing 256GB of GSKill DDR5 6000 on AM5!

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No E? X870 Nova Wifi Motherboard Review and Memory Chat

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A Deep Dive into Threadripper 9000!

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Beware DDR5 Silent Throttling! Buy/Don't Buy V-color Testing at DDR5 7200/ 8000 for Threadripper

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Live: Kicking it with RTX 6000 Blackwell. 600 watts, 96gb ram

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show April 30 2025: Driverless GPUs


Monitors

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Dell Sent Wendell a New Monitor for the Studio: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor - U5226KW

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An OLED Monitor For the Office: DELL QD-OLED S3225QC

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Creating a PCIe Bifurcation Solution for AI Councils

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Checking Out MSI's BLAZING FAST 500hz 1440p OLED Monitor!

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Checking Out The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS: Excelsior!

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This 240hz OLED Gaming Monitor is Wendell's Dream Monitor: Ft The ASRock PG032UFS Gaming Monitor

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MSI MP251 E2 Quick Review and Overview

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520Hz Gaming Monitor: The PG27FFX2A from Phantom Gaming

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Motherboards

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Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

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Mini PCs Need Some New Rules! Ft: Minisforum BD895i SE Motherboard

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Building a Decent Intel Workstation for Relatively Cheap

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Is One Socket Enough? Intel's Flagship 128-core Xeon in the Supermicro SYS-212HA-TN vs ZEN 5!

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No E? X870 Nova Wifi Motherboard Review and Memory Chat

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Supermicro's H14SSL-N Motherboard Review and Build

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A Xeon 6 1 Socket Server with 136 GEN 5 PCIe Lanes from Supermicro


Network

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Is Custom Building a Forbidden Router in 2025 a Good Idea? Featuring Editor Grant

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Checking Out The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS: Excelsior!

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What's the state of 25g switching in the UniFi Universe?

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No E? X870 Nova Wifi Motherboard Review and Memory Chat

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MSI B850I Edge TI WIFI Motherboard Review

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ASRock x870 Steel Legend WiFi 7 Motherboard Overview

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 20 2025: #FreeEd


PSU

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A New Silverstone 5u Case for our Storage Server and Virtual Machines! (Featuring a FSP 1600w PSU)

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show May 28 2025: Do Svidaniya, Playstation

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ASRock PSU??? Steel Legend SL-1000G #asrock quick look, powering threadripper and epyc. vids soon

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The Level1 Show July 26 2024: Racing Cane's

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The Level1 Show June 17th 2024: A Fine They Can't Refuse

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My Power!? Its uninterruptable! (and also RGB) -- ft Tripp Lite Smart 1200 PSGLCD


Storage

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SPRANDOM: The Best Benchmarking Standard for Storage?

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7 Things to Know about Proxmox! (esp. for VMWare Refugees)

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The Beelink ME Pro is the Tiniest Storage Server I've Ever Seen! I used it as a Proxmox Backup Host

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Adam/EposVox and Wendell's Storinator Storage Upgrade Adventure! Level1Diagnostic

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Server SSD Innovation from Solidigm

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A New Silverstone 5u Case for our Storage Server and Virtual Machines! (Featuring a FSP 1600w PSU)

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Checking Out The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS: Excelsior!

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Upgrading @GamersNexus Storage Server! Feat. 45Drives and Kioxia!

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Is Hardware Raid TRULY Dead? SupremeRAID SR-1010, Reviewed

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More Strix Halo MADNESS With The GMKtec EVO-X2 Mini PC!

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Wendell continues our Strix Halo journey with the GMKtec EVO-X2. How does it stack up to other Strix Halo offerings like the Framework Desktop? Check it out!

Check it out here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F53MLYQ6/?tag=level1techs-20

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Showcasing the New MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2mg on the Server Crash Cart!

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AI is in everything now, and small businesses can utilize it with this Mini PC from MSI.
Want one? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHB1RJZC/level1techs-20

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Is the AOOSTAR WTR MAX Perfect for Building a Forbidden Router?

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Remember the Forbidden Router videos? Those were fun! But a lot has changed since then. We're working on a new one, but in the meantime here's a quick look at some of the hardware we'll be using. Neat!

https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-wtr-max-amd-r7-pro-8845hs-11-bays-…

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Supermicro's H14SSL-N Motherboard Review and Build

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Home Servers need a good motherboard, so why not check out this H14SSL-N Motherboard from Supermicro!

Check it out here: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h14ssl-n

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Building an Epyc Low Power System with the AM5 Epyc 4545P

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Wendell takes AMD's Epyc 4545P CPU for a spin. Could this be a great choice for a low power home server solution? Watch the video!

Check it out here: https://newegg.io/nc7ddd49ce

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The Threadripper 9995WX Build – The Most Overkill PC We’ve Ever Touched. Stupid Fast, Stupid Fun!

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We got our hands on a threadripper pro 9995 WX thanks to AMD and Falcon Northwest! Join Wendell as he showcases it to you in all its glory!

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Linux on the New Framework Desktop PC!

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Framework isn't just making laptops anymore! Now they are making very small desktop pc too! Check out Wednell's fun with Linux.

Thank you framework for sending us this lovely piece of kit! https://frame.work/desktop

Check out the forum here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-ultimate-arch-secureboot-guide-for-…

0:00 Intro
0:22 AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
1:07 What's in the Desktop
2:05 CPU Performance
3:09 GPU Performance
4:30 The Linux I Used
4:51 Other Configs
5:43 AI Workloads
9:36 Wendell's Endorsement?
10:56 NPU and BIOS
11:30 Conclusions

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Live Stream: Chill Testing & Chat about first tests on Threadripper PRO 9995WX plus RTX 6000

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thumbnail was drawn by editor Autumn :D

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The New Threadripper CPUs are OVER 9000! Linux Review and Benchmarks

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Threadripper 9000 is here, and they're even further beyond the power of Threadripper 7000! But how do they fare on Linux? Wendell has the scoop!

0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Platform Overview
4:03 - Linux Features
8:38 - HEDT Thoughts
12:43 - Benchmarks
16:19 - Use Cases for Threadripper 9000
21:40 - Final Thoughts

Check out our Threadripper build guide here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-ultimate-guide-to-building-a-thread…

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Beware DDR5 Silent Throttling! Buy/Don't Buy V-color Testing at DDR5 7200/ 8000 for Threadripper

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The new Threadripper CPUs are just around the corner, and it's got Wendell thinking about the next build. Maybe you're thinking about it too? Join Wendell as he talks over the pros and cons of V-color's DDR5 8000

Think these are what you need?
7000 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQJH1K4C/level1techs-20
8000 - Get them here (just be careful of the heat!): https://newegg.io/nc86837559

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